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Literary Devices and Poe

Powerful ideas

A novel is a vehicle that transports us to any time or place.

Her clothes, a colorful weaving of sunset’s rays, caught my eye from across the room.

Metaphors

Create a metaphor for this picture

He had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it.

Create a Metaphor for the old man’s eye

My mother is like an angel.

She moved as quietly as a breeze.

Similes

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It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum

stimulates the soldier into courage.

Create a simile for the sound of the old man’s heart

The bouncing bunnies played delightedly.

My cherished marriage is founded on truth and trust.

Alliterations

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The beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

Create an alliteration for the sound of the old man’s heart

Grief follows me around endlessly.

Stormy clouds marched over the landscape with a building intention to attack.

Personifications

Create a personification for this picture

Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and

enveloped the victim.

Create a personification for death.